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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
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On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 02:53:13PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> I hope I made it clear that I believe BK is helping Linux.  Furthermore, I
> don't see why Larry should not collect some advertising for his contribution.
> Within limits.  IMHO, we're on the wrong side of the limit at the moment,
> and moving further with no sign of moderating.

Yes, because so many purchasing managers spend their time reading the
Documentation subdirectory of the Linux kernel in order to decide what
SCM system they should use.

The existence (or non-existence) of the docs has absolutely no marketing
value to BK.
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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